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dontiknowyou
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November 26, 2021 edited November 26, 2021 in Family Tree

I am seeing this sometimes. An historical record appears to be attached where it does not belong, but apparently is not attached. Here the spurious attachment is to Peder Olaus Jacobsen. Screenshot is from https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHCJ-5BQ

Screen Shot 2021-11-26 at 3.27.03 PM.png


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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 26, 2021 Answer ✓

    Please escalate to engineers.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 26, 2021 Answer ✓

    More weirdness. Other PIDs load but Arthur Henry Crandall does not:

    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZZ3-VDX

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  • Sanra
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    November 27, 2021 Answer ✓

    @dontiknowyou

    Your case will be forwarded to a specialty team for review and resolution. You may be contacted by that team if they need additional information.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 28, 2021

    @dontiknowyou, I don't understand what error you're trying to point at in that screenshot and link: Arthur Crandall's 1870 census record is not attached to anyone in Family Tree. Where do you see Peder Olaus Jacobsen's name?

    (There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of profiles with that name in Family Tree, so it's impossible to check from the other end.)

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 28, 2021 edited November 28, 2021

    @Julia Szent-Györgyi here I highlight the spurious link.

    Screen Shot 2021-11-26 at 3.27.03 PM.png

    I keep seeing these and trying to detach the obviously bad attachment, only to find there is no attachment. Or is there? Aargh!!!!

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 28, 2021 edited November 28, 2021

    Oh. That's really weird. If I follow the link, all of the similar records are attached to Arthur Henry Crandall, with no sign of Peder Olaus Jacobsen:

    image.png

    Is the "phantom" always in the Similar Records, or is it sometimes on the record itself? (If it's always one of the similar records, then I would be highly unlikely to notice -- SRs are rare in my "neck of the woods", so I'm accustomed to ignoring the whole section. That's probably why I utterly failed to figure out what your screenshot was trying to tell me.)

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  • dontiknowyou
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    November 28, 2021

    Good question. I have seen this spurious attachment bug with records themselves "attached" to random PIDs. But more often I see it under Similar Records, which in my case are numerous.

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  • dontiknowyou
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    December 6, 2021

    Problem is still there. It can be seen on the Family Search historical record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHCJ-5BQ

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 7, 2021

    Have you tried clearing your cache lately? I ask because if I follow that link, the three Similar Records are all attached to Arthur Henry Crandall (LZZ3-VDX), while the record itself (for the 1870 census) is not yet attached to anyone.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 7, 2021

    Julia, it looks like the engineers did something today during the 6 hours between my post and yours. I now also see correct links, no more Peder.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 7, 2021

    Er, no. I see the correct link in Firefox but still see the bogus link in Safari. This despite clearing all history in Safari.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 8, 2021

    Safari still shows the bogus Peder link, even in a private window.

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